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In an article published 6/25 in Attorney at Law Magazine, Segal McCambridge Shareholder Geoffrey Leskie describes the commercial trucking industry’s rapid shift into AI and autonomous trucking. In the past, the major concern was centered on the driver’s conduct, but in this new era of autonomous trucking, new approaches, technologies, and experts are needed to convey concepts to a jury.
Fully automated, driverless trucking drastically changes the litigation landscape. Leskie explains, “Without a driver, the most important witness in a future trucking trial is likely to be the truck itself. Trial attorneys will need to prepare their witness but in a very different sense.”
With the transition into AI, attorneys should be prepared to adapt, utilizing the truck’s data on speed, impact angle, secondary impacts, and more to convey not only which truck is at fault, but also why the truck reacted in the way it did. Attorneys will also need to convey these ideas in a distilled manner for the jury.
“In some jurisdictions, it can be years between an accident and an eventual lawsuit, so it will be extremely important to maintain and preserve any accident data as well as software versions and store the same in an organized and usable manner,” said Leskie. “As data management technologies also improve with the incorporation and utilization of artificial intelligence to store and organize large amounts of data, it should be theoretically easier for counsel to stay ready to respond to litigation.”
Read the story in full, click here.
